| Role | Year | Female Personality |
| First Woman Teacher in India. | 1848 | Savitribai Phule |
| First Woman Doctor in India | 1886 | Anandi Gopal Joshi |
| First Female President of the Indian National Congress | 1917 | Annie Besant |
| First Indian Woman to be awarded the Kaiser-i-Hind Medal by the British Raj | 1919 | Pandita Ramabai |
| First Indian Woman President of INC | 1925 | Sarojini Naidu |
| First Indian Woman Airline Pilot | 1936 | Sarla Thakral |
| First Indian Woman to be conferred the Doctorate of Science by an Indian university. | 1944 | Asima Chatterjee |
| India’s First Woman Governor (Uttar Pradesh) | 1947 | Sarojini Naidu |
| First Woman Cabinet minister of India in the country’s first cabinet. | 1947 | Amrit Kaur |
| First Woman Union Minister (Minister of Health) | 1947 | Rajkumari Amrita Kaur |
| First Woman (and first Indian) President of the United Nations General Assembly | 1953 | Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit |
| First Indian Woman to swim across English Channel | 1959 | Arati Saha |
| First Indian Woman Judge of a High Court (Kerala High Court) | 1959 | Anna Chandy |
| First Indian woman to get Arjuna Award | 1963 | Stephie D’Souza |
| First Woman Chief Minister of State (Uttar Pradesh) | 1963 | Sucheta Kripalani |
| First Woman Prime Minister of India and served from 1966 to 1977. | 1966 | Indira Gandhi |
| First Indian Woman to become Miss World | 1966 | Miss Reita Faria |
| First Ramon Magsaysay award for community leadership | 1966 | Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay |
| First Indian Woman to win Gold in Asian Games | 1970 | Kamaljeet Sandhu |
| First Woman Ambassador | 1970 | Miss C.B. Muthumma |
| First Indian Woman to get Bharat Ratna | 1971 | Indira Gandhi |
| First Indian Woman Police Officer | 1972 | Kiran Bedi |
| First Indian Woman to get Jnanpith Award | 1976 | Ashapoorna Devi |
| First Indian Woman Who reached Antarctica | 1977 | Mahel Musa |
| First Woman Air Vice Marshal | 1978 | P. Bandopadhyaya |
| First Indian Woman to get Nobel Prize | 1979 | Mother Terasa |
| First Indian Women to win Oscar Award | 1983 | Bhanu Athaiya |
| First Indian Woman to climb Mt Everest | 1984 | Bachendri Pal |
| First Asian Woman loco-pilot or railway driver. | 1986 | Surekha Yadav |
| First Woman to get Ashok Chakra | 1987 | Neerja Bhanot |
| First Woman Autorickshaw driver | 1988 | Shila Dawre |
| First Woman Judge of Supreme Court | 1989 | Meera Sahib Fatima Bibi |
| First Woman Chief Justice of a High Court | 1991 | Leela Seth |
| First Women Cadet to join the Indian Army | 1992 | Priya Jhingan |
| First Woman to climb Mount Everest twice | 1993 | Santosh Yadav |
| First Indian Woman to become Miss Universe | 1994 | Susmita Sen |
| First Woman Pilot in Indian Air Force | 1994 | Harita Kaur Deol |
| First Indian Woman to Booker Prize | 1997 | Arundhati Roy |
| First Indian Woman to go to space | 1997 | Kalpana Chawla |
| First Woman Musician to get Bharat Ratna | 1998 | MS Subbalakshmi |
| First Indian Woman to win Medal in Olympic | 2000 | Karnam Malleswari |
| First Female Flying Officer in the Indian Air Force to be court-martial led | 2001 | Anjali Gupt |
| First Indian Woman to win WTA Title | 2005 | Sania Mirza |
| First Woman chairperson of Indian Airlines | 2005 | Sushma Chawla |
| First Woman Lieutenant General | 2005 | Puneeta Arora |
| First Woman President of India | 2007 | Pratiba Patil |
| First Female Speaker of Lok Sabha. | 2009 | Meira Kumar |
| First Woman Officer to win a Sena Medal for gallantry. | 2011 | Mitali Madhumita |
| First twins ever to conquer Mount Everest together | 2013 | Tashi and Nancy Malik |
| First Indian Woman who become an Individual Member of International Olympic Committee | 2016 | Nita Ambani |
| First Medal and that’s Silver won by her in Paralympics games in Summer Paralympics 2016. | 2016 | Deepa Malik |
| First Indian Woman to be Elected as Judge of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) | 2017 | Dr. Neeru Chadha |
| First Indian Woman to win a shooting gold in the Asian Games | 2018 | Rahi Sarnobat |
| First Indian Woman athlete to win a gold at the world level in the women’s 400m final race in the IAAF World Under-20 Athletics Championships | 2018 | Hima Das |
| First Indian Woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean solo in a light sport aircraft | 2019 | Arohi Pandit |
| First Women Cricketer scored a century in T20 | 2019 | Harmanpreet Kaur |
| India’s First full-time Woman Finance Minister | 2019 | Nirmala Sitharaman |
| First Female National Umpire to Officiate in the T20 contest. | 2019 | Vrinda Rathi |
| First Indian Woman Flight Engineer | 2019 | Hina Jaiswal |
| First Ever Woman to be appointed to the ICC International Panel of Match Referees | 2019 | GS Lakshmi |
| First Female to lead the Army’s Daredevils Motorcycle Display team | 2019 | Captain Shikha Surabhi |
| First Female Officer to lead a contingent on the Army Day parade | 2019 | Captain Divya Ajith |
| First Indian Woman to be elected Royal Society Fellow | 2019 | Gagandeep Kang |
| First Indian woman to receive Future of Nature award for marine conservation. | 2019 | Divya Karnad |
| First Female to Lead the Indian Army’s Service Corps (ASC) | 2019 | Lieutenant Bhavana Kasturi |
| First Youngest Indian woman to win on the Ladies European Tour (LET). | 2019 | Diksha Dagar |
| First Indian female golfer to win the Ladies European Tour | 2019 | Aditi Ashok |
| First Female Amputee to climb Mount Vinson, the highest peak of Antarctica. | 2019 | Arunima Sinha |
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